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Home » Cuba Spanish Slang Expressions » Page 5

es bueno cuando está durmiendo

a bad person

espantar la mula

to leave

echar un patín

to run as fast as you can

echar una surna

a nap

el culo del mundo

Timbuktu, the end of the world

el horno no está para galleticas

things are really bad right now

él no dispara un chícharo

he does nothing

empinar chiringa

1) to fly a kite 2) to waste time

de a viaje

do something quickly and only once

de carretilla

by heart, by memory

de pascuas a San Juan

almost never, very seldom

desmaya eso

an order to finish something, forget about talking, get back to work

durar como merengue en la puerta de una escuela

gone in a flash, literally “to last as long as candy at a school’s door”

dar cabilla

to fuck

dar chucho

mocking of a person

dar la punzada del güajiro

brain freeze

dar muela

to woo someone

dar tranca

to fight

darse lija

to be pretentious, arrogant or showy

darse tremendo tanganazo

to hit yourself by accident, bump yourself

darse un golpe de suegra

to bang your funny bone (in your elbow) really hard

darse Violín

to scratch yourself

completo Camagüey

an expression said after finishing a task

cruzársele los cables

to become crazy, a lunatic

coger mangos bajitos

to grab low hanging fruit, do something easy

coger para el bonche

enjoy or have fun at the expense of someone who is going through an embarrassing situation

coger un aire

to expose oneself to the night weather without appropriate clothing, as a result you get an acute and sporadic pain in any part of your body

colgar el sable

to quit

colgar los guantes

to quit

comer tierra

starving, extremely hungry

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